Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coens create highly original takes on the macabre theme of human pavement art but cannot connect them into anything meaningful or entertaining. CEO Waring Hudsucker takes a running start from the end of the long boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep...
Instead of crashing and burning, however, the plane pulled out of its tailspin and cranked up the engine. Our moment of anguish gave way as the little plane chugged onwards. Soon the sadistic pilot was at it again, tail-spinning towards earth, only to pull out of the dive at the last moment. Dave and Holly were starting to enjoy the show but I couldn't watch. Every time the plane cut its engine and began its dip, my legs twitched and I fled, helplessly, for a few yards. I was OD-ing on adrenaline. And I was beginning...
...large cast toward a fifth novel that will pull things together, the reader is entitled to a bit of head scratching. Over most of its course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing more. Similarly, a chapter in which Lyman Lamartine, Lipsha's rival, goes...
Ryles-212 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge; 876-9339. Take the #69 bus to Inman Square. Ryles is more than a dive, but still not as posh as the R'Bar. Live jazz daily both upstairs and downstairs. Covers are pretty low; regulars include guitarist Bruce Bartlett, who plays every Tuesday. Food and drink available...
...three agreed that a judge should not be afraid to make a mistake, especially since the highest and lowest scores for each dive are omitted and only the middle three are counted. "You don't need to pay too much attention to whether or not you're score is too high or too low," Keck said...